reminiscing

i don't feel well.

this morning while steven was at the gym / getting ready for work and the thunder was rolling and lightning striking, i looked through a bunch of pictures on my computer.

i love doing that and haven't in awhile. plus, i think lightning struck our internet because it was down for about 16 hours. {why do i think this? because lightning and thunder hit at the exact same time. and we know by the counting rule for every second that the thunder and lightning are apart, that's how many miles away it is.  well, when they are at the exact same time and it sounds like a million gun shots all at once and you can feel it in your chest, you know it is like right next to you.}

without further ado, i bring you some fond remember whens...

 remember when we had mother's day altogether and danny and denae announced they were having a baby? first great grandchild! and now great grandchild no. 3 comes any moment now {or forcibly via induction tomorrow morning--so excited kathy and rob!}

 remember when dana graduated 8th grade and i was being mom for 8 days with these little beauts. and now she's graduated high school! yikes.

remember carmel by the sea? 

same trip up the coast, but this is in monterey. there was a reason we took this picture. it was for someone, but i can't remember.

remember bucky. we miss him.

remember when erin made me get a facebook when i told her i didn't want a "webpage" {ha, now i have a blog--a real "webpage"} and she set it up for me and made this my profile picture?

erin remember when we used to have our dance parties? or when i danced for you every night after i got back from the gym when you were laying in bed after your knee surgery? 

remember when claire woke up with a crooked neck 4 hours before we were supposed to fly to new york so she wore a heating pad on her neck ALL day?

oh, that same trip is when i met lady liberty. let her ring this weekend, especially monday.

oh and remember when we met one of my favorite men, as a statue? good ol' abe. i was looking forward to that moment the whole trip.

remember when i would study on my floor? still do, well lesson plans now. laying on my stomach is my preferred way.

remember when dana was obsessed with that peace sign shirt?

oh, remember when you got those rain boots erin?

and who could forget when it snowed like 8 inches in vegas and i couldn't get home for christmas? okay, then the passes opened up again and we were clear the next day, except it took us double the time. plus and overnight. 

remember when i got my car?

erin, do you remember when you would "fall asleep" in EVERY picture that christmas break?
{ps, lauren--that is the anthro sweater i gave you, cute, eh?}



it used to just be em that fell asleep in pictures.

oh also erin, do you remember when you ran up on the curb and i made you sit down and take a picture next to it? haha.

remember when i took you girls to la in the van. gangsta. and you tried to find some celebrities at that milkshake place? fail.

remember when we started our new year's eve breakfast at mimi's cafe tradition? and i ate too much french toast. it's just so good.

oh hey em, remember when we were opposite twins?

here's a blast from the past: adam ondi ahman. i wish i had that outfit still, or at least the skirt. do you have it dana? i want it back.

danny and denae's wedding dinner, remember that? buca's!

i miss this.

oh, last but not least, remember the ambulance turned motor home that is like massive and was parked outside the mesa, az temple during danny and denae's wedding?






steven and i need to take more pictures together. i take a lot of mental ones.